Hail, Quay
- When
- May 10, 8:47 PM MST
- Where
- Quay County, Nara Visa
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.600, -103.100
Hail in New Mexico, May 10, 2002
2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 10, 8:15 PM MST, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 8:15 PM MST, 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 915 PM MDT FRI MAY 10 2002 FINALLY...TSTMS BEGINNING TO FIRE ACROSS PARTS OF THE EAST. SFC DRYLN BEGINNING TO RETREAT THIS EVENING PER KFDX RADAR AND SFC OBS. DEW POINT FRONT CURRENTLY EXTENDS FROM NEAR ROY SOUTHWARD TO EAST OF SANTA ROSA AND ALONG PECOS VALLEY BETWEEN FORT SUMNER AND ROSWELL. DEW POINTS WELL INTO THE 50S AND EVEN LOWER 60S EAST OF THE DRYLINE...AND CLIMBING. HOWEVER, FAIRLY STRONG CAP ABOVE MOIST LAYER REALLY SQUELCED CONVECTION EARLIER THIS EVENING...OR SO IT APPEARS. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM INTENSIFYING SOUTHEAST OF PORTALES AND ALSO SOUTH OF TUCUMCARI AS I WRITE, SO WILL CONTINUE MENTION OF SVR IN ERN MOST ZONES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #278 IN EFFECT FOR CURRY...ROOSEVELT AND ERN CHAVES COUNTIES UNTIL 06Z. ONLY OTHER CHANGES WORTH NOTING FOR THE OVERNIGHT WAS TO WORD MOSTLY CLEAR VS PC OVER MUCH OF THE CENTRAL AND WEST. MID/HIGH CLOUDS SKIRTING THE SCNTL/SE AND NRN MTNS. QUICK LOOK AT MODELS SHOWS ANOTHER WIND BAG FOR SATURDAY. DRYLN SHOULD GET MIXED EAST OF OUR AREA BY THE AFTERNOON. WILL PASS ANY WIND HIGHLIGHT TO MID CREW. KJ .ABQ...SVR TSTM WTH TIL 06Z CURRY/ROOSEVELT/AND ERN CHAVES COUNTIES.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Quay
- When
- May 10, 9:10 PM MST
- Where
- Quay County, San Jon
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 34.100, -103.333
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Florida, May 10, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 10, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 10, 2002
- Flooding in Alaska, May 10 to 13, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alabama, May 10, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 10 to 11, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in South Carolina, May 10 to 11, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, May 10, 2002
- High Wind in California, May 10 to 11, 2002
- Flooding in Wisconsin, May 10 to 12, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 10, 2002
- Hail in Georgia, May 10, 2002
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, May 2002
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5288220, 5288221.